Top 200 Self-Empowerment Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.”

— Osho

152. “Don’t waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.”

— Joel Osteen

153. “Vulnerability is not about winning, and it’s not about losing. It’s about having the courage to show up and be seen.”

— Brené Brown

154. “If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there’s some way to do it.”

— Walt Disney

155. “No one rises to low expectations.”

— Les Brown

156. “Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.”

— Oprah Winfrey

157. “Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”

— Les Brown

158. “It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.”

— Tony Robbins

159. “High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events, not that events have control over you.”

— Tony Robbins

160. “You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

161. “It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”

— William Ernest Henley

162. “Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you’ll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.”

— Brian Tracy

163. “Fear only exists when you do not understand that you have the power to project thought and that the Universe will respond.”

— Esther Hicks

164. “Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.”

— Jim Rohn

165. “How long should you try? Until.”

— Jim Rohn

166. “Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.”

— Oprah Winfrey

167. “Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.”

— Steve Jobs

168. “If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”

— Barack Obama

169. “At the end of pain is SUCCESS!”

— Eric Thomas

170. “To get to that next level, you gotta learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable.”

— Eric Thomas

171. “If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

— Jim Rohn

172. “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”

— Edward Everett Hale

173. “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”

— Frederick Douglass

174. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.”

— Earl Nightingale

175. “Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself is, ‘Are all the disciplines that I’m currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?’”

— Jim Rohn

176. “Never let someone’s opinion become your reality. Never sacrifice who you are because someone else has a problem with it. Love who you are inside and out.”

— Les Brown

177. “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”

— Deepak Chopra

178. “Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.”

— Swami Vivekananda

179. “When your every thought and your every action is directed to your ultimate life goals, you become unstoppable and assured of great success and happiness.”

— Robin S. Sharma

180. “Be a lamp unto yourself.”

— Buddha

181. “Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.”

— Osho

182. “The thoughts you think today determine the results you’ll see tomorrow.”

— Robin S. Sharma

183. “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”

— Maya Angelou

184. “It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.”

— Zig Ziglar

185. “Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.”

— Denis Waitley

186. “Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

187. “Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you.”

— Rhonda Byrne

188. “For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”

— Mary Kay Ash

189. “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

— Walter Bagehot

190. “As you think of yourself living in abundance, you are powerfully and consciously determining your life through the law of attraction.”

— Rhonda Byrne

191. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”

— Alice Walker

192. “Today I begin a new life for I am the master of my abilities and today is going to be a great and beautiful day!”

— Tyrese Gibson

193. “An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.”

— Goi Nasu

194. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

195. “The first step to getting anywhere is deciding you’re no longer willing to stay where you are.”

— Anonymous

196. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

197. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.”

— Jim Rohn

198. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

199. “Nothing will work unless you do.”

— Maya Angelou

200. “It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.”

— Elizabeth Kenny